Two employees of a secluded hotel investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1940s
Nine Men (1943) Harry Watt, Jack Lambert, Grant Sutherland, Gordon Jackson
The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. Read More »
Ziegfeld Follies (1945) Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, William Powell, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball
In heaven, showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. fondly recalls his first Broadway revue, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1907. Read More »
Noose / The Silk Noose (1948) Edmond T. Gréville, Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, Derek Farr
Sugiani, a black-market racketeer in London, following World War II, is amassing a vast fortune until Linda Medbury Read More »
Dangerous Journey (1944) Armand Denis, Leila Roosevelt, Conrad Nagel
Expeditions to parts of North and South America, India and Burma (Myanmar). Read More »
Holy Matrimony (1943) John M. Stahl
Famed English painter Priam Farll has spent the last 25 years living in various Read More »
The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family / Todake no kyôdai (1941) Yasujirô Ozu, Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Hideo Fujino
When the patriarch of the Toda family suddenly dies, his widow discovers that he has left Read More »
Love Story (1944) Leslie Arliss, Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Tom Walls
After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall Read More »
Operette (1940) Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar
The first film of Willi Forst’s legendary Viennese trilogy is essentially a condensed history of the golden age of Viennese operetta mirrored in the fictive love story Read More »
There Goes Kelly (1945) Phil Karlson, Jackie Moran, Wanda McKay, Sidney Miller
Two young men working as pages at a radio station try to get an audition for a girl they know who wants to be a singer. Read More »